Agile Conversations

A Six-Part Online Meetup Series

Session 3 guest speaker: Sergio Seelochan

Examining the Drill
What happens to our thinking when AI becomes part of the conversation?
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I started using LLMs because writing had always been a bottleneck between the speed of my thoughts and getting them onto the page. I thought AI might simply make writing easier.
Instead, I discovered something much more interesting about my relationship with writing, thinking and the tool itself.
This won't be a talk about prompting. It's a practical session. I'll share a little of my own experience, then I'll invite you to bring an idea of your own, explore it in conversation with an LLM, and see what happens.
Together we'll step away from the usual question of what AI can produce and examine something different:
What happens when we stop examining the output and start examining the tool and ourselves using it?
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Please make sure you have access to an LLM of your choice, and a pen and paper to transcribe your thoughts.
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Bio
Sergio Seelochan is a lifelong reluctant writer. I’m here because LLM’s allowed me to get an idea out of my head and onto the page faster, or so I thought. Instead, I discovered that LLMs were changing my relationship with writing and thinking itself. I write about Organisational Gravity on Substack, exploring why organisations absorb, reshape and sometimes neutralise attempts to change them.

Description of this series
Agile didn’t promise speed. It promised sustainability.
The original Agile Movement was never about pumping out code at breakneck speed. It was about building robust, adaptable software and creating healthier, human-centred workplaces. It promised autonomy, trust, and environments where people were empowered to make meaningful decisions.
For the most part, we missed that mark.
Over the last two decades, workers were subjected to micromanagement, rigid tools, and metric tracking. Managers, too, were trapped in a system few truly understood. While delivery pipelines improved, the human potential latent within our organisations remained largely untapped.

Read the full description here: Intelligent Agile.

Join us to explore how we can finally fulfil the original promise of Agile—creating exceptional products in truly human-centric environments.

NOTE: This meetup is free, but you are encouraged to contribute
towards the meetup fees and the organiser's time. CLICK HERE

How to work with humans
— a talk by Ryan Behrman

A lot of attention goes into how to work with AI but what about working with those pesky little humans?
The secret is understanding what combination of strengths each human brings and how they prefer to work with others. Could this human be you?
In this talk, Ryan Behrman will unpack four insights from modern psychology that are incorporated into StrongSuits, a meta model of human interaction as applied to teams in the workplace:

• People are more effective at work when they play to their strengths
• Cognitive diversity makes teams stronger
• People interact and communicate in different ways
• Every strength can be overplayed and become a limitation

Bio
Ryan Behrman is an expert facilitator, trainer, trainer of trainers and the owner and CEO of StrongSuits. His motto is "Nobody is as capable as everybody".

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Landing right in the midst of the Intelligent Agile series, consider Ryan's session with its strong focus on humans to be a special, bonus addition to this series.

NOTE: This meetup is free, but you are encouraged to contribute
towards the meetup fees and the organiser's time. CLICK HERE

A Six-Part Online Meetup Series

Session 4 guest speaker: Thomas Meloche

Prompting Health, Healing and Wholeness with AI
A Return to Human-Sized Teams
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For decades, technology has allowed organizations to become bigger, more specialized, and more bureaucratic. AI may unexpectedly push us in the opposite direction.

Drawing on the work behind Questions Heal, this talk explores how conversational AI can help people ask better questions about health, healing, and wholeness while allowing remarkably small teams to tackle problems that once required entire organizations.

The opportunity is not simply to automate existing healthcare processes. It is to rethink what becomes possible when AI can listen, prompt, organize knowledge, and help people discover what they may already know but have never been asked.

Perhaps the most interesting consequence of AI will not be bigger organizations. It may be the return of the human-sized team. And perhaps, almost ironically, a return to the fundamental ideas of Scrum.
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Bio
Tom Meloche is a computer engineer, entrepreneur, author, and longtime Agile practitioner. He co-founded Menlo Innovations and has spent more than 25 years helping organizations rethink how people work together, coaching hundreds of teams and training more than 20,000 people.

Today, Tom is CTO of Questions Heal, where he is exploring how AI, thoughtful prompting, and carefully designed conversational systems can help people better understand their health and themselves.

His work sits at the intersection of software engineering, complexity, organizational design, and a persistent question he has pursued throughout his career:

How small can the team be and still change the world?
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Description of this series
Agile didn’t promise speed. It promised sustainability.
The original Agile Movement was never about pumping out code at breakneck speed. It was about building robust, adaptable software and creating healthier, human-centred workplaces. It promised autonomy, trust, and environments where people were empowered to make meaningful decisions.
For the most part, we missed that mark.
Over the last two decades, workers were subjected to micromanagement, rigid tools, and metric tracking. Managers, too, were trapped in a system few truly understood. While delivery pipelines improved, the human potential latent within our organisations remained largely untapped.

Read the full description here: Intelligent Agile.

Join us to explore how we can finally fulfil the original promise of Agile—creating exceptional products in truly human-centric environments.

NOTE: This meetup is free, but you are encouraged to contribute
towards the meetup fees and the organiser's time. CLICK HERE

A Six-Part Online Meetup Series

Session 5 guest speaker: Laurie Young

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Description of this series
Agile didn’t promise speed. It promised sustainability.
The original Agile Movement was never about pumping out code at breakneck speed. It was about building robust, adaptable software and creating healthier, human-centred workplaces. It promised autonomy, trust, and environments where people were empowered to make meaningful decisions.
For the most part, we missed that mark.
Over the last two decades, workers were subjected to micromanagement, rigid tools, and metric tracking. Managers, too, were trapped in a system few truly understood. While delivery pipelines improved, the human potential latent within our organisations remained largely untapped.

Read the full description here: Intelligent Agile.

Join us to explore how we can finally fulfil the original promise of Agile—creating exceptional products in truly human-centric environments.

NOTE: This meetup is free, but you are encouraged to contribute
towards the meetup fees and the organiser's time. CLICK HERE